http://www.seriousgames.org/ The Serious Games Initiative focuses on providing assistance and support to the community of developers, customers, and researchers looking at a wide range of appplications for games, game technologies, and game development skills in areas other then entertainment. Such fields include learning, simulation, healthcare, policy, science, corporate analytics, training, and more. en-us bsawyer@seriousgames.org 2008-10-19T09:48:04-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000231.html We're finally, but slowly, getting some changes going on at our site. Please see the new newswire section where we'll try to compile news in a more regular fashion. We also have launched a channel on YouTube (send us video... 231@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2008-10-19T09:48:04-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000219.html Earlier today Peter Smith & I shared the first version of our Serious Games Taxonomy. This is an effort to develop a much broader and well defined look at the serious games field. Ever since the first time I shared... 219@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2008-02-19T07:22:03-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000205.html As you probably already know E3 has been transformed into a smaller more intimate, by invitation only, conference to foster one on one contact between the press and the games industry. This year's event will take place in July in... 205@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2006-10-13T21:48:08-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000199.html This video is pretty interesting. It includes interviews with Jim Gee, Clark Aldrich, and Henry Jenkins the Keynote for the SGS DC 2006. It is 20 minutes so sit back and enjoy.... 199@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2006-10-04T01:51:11-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000192.html It’s that time again; time to get registered for the Serious Games Summit. Early registration ends on the 2nd of October. So, stop reading this and get over to www.seriousgamessummit.com and register now, before it is too late. Remember there... 192@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2006-10-01T18:46:41-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000174.html Yoichi Wada, the president of Square Enix, had a keynote at CEDEC (Computer Entertainment Software Association (CESA) Developers Conference), which is the biggest game developer's conference in Japan. At the keynote speech titled "The future of game industry in Japan",... 174@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2006-09-10T12:30:47-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000168.html VTech, maker of awesome laptops and other various electronics for people under the age of five, have decided to broaden their horizons to include Spanish offerings. They are creating Spanish versions of their 12 most popular Smartridge educational video games.... 168@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2006-07-11T09:54:17-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000167.html If you’re anything like me you are just dying to play Cooking Mama, soon to be released in the States by Majesco (The people who published the cult classic Psychonauts). The game has you using the DS Stylus to... 167@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2006-07-10T00:51:19-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000163.html Kotaku is reporting that the Pokemon will be teaching Japanese children computer skills in Pokemon PC Master. The original source is in Japanese, but a trip to Babel Fish later and we find in the midst of broken English it... 163@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2006-06-20T13:41:34-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000162.html If you are planning to submit a game for the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge, held at this years I/ITSEC, Stottler Henke has a deal for you. You can now use their award winning tools to develop your entry.... 162@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2006-06-13T09:53:53-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000161.html It’s that time again. Time to collect all your research, prototypes, good ideas and finished projects and submit them for public scrutiny (friendly helpful scrutiny) at this year’s Serious Games Summit DC. If you have not made it to a... 161@http://www.seriousgames.org/ Event 2006-06-07T09:08:19-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000156.html One of the big roles the Initiative has played in building out the serious games field is by obtaining press coverage for the field. Here are three recent articles the Initiative helped bring about... We've orchestrated some big hits lately...... 156@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2006-05-23T11:19:39-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000154.html Well it's been almost a week since E3. We're finally recovering here. A great event and we thank everyone who came by to visit our booth in Kentia Hall. We hosted about a dozen or so members of the press... 154@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2006-05-18T09:21:01-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000150.html So a long time ago I got a email from someone who said they were working on a social commentary game about the Columbine Massacre. They wanted us to know it was being worked on and they wanted to do... 150@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2006-05-06T20:23:06-05:00 http://www.seriousgames.org/archives/000149.html Majesco has announced they are going to bring the odd little cooking title Cooking Mama to DS’s all over America. Cooking Mama is a unique title sometimes referred to as a cooking simulation. Apparently you cook some very Japanese... 149@http://www.seriousgames.org/ 2006-05-05T17:22:41-05:00